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"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."

Calvino, Italo on Anecdotes
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."

Chesterfield, Lord on Anecdotes
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"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Anecdotes
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"Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us."

Havel, Vaclav on Anecdotes
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"Life is too short for a long story."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on Anecdotes
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"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."

Shakespeare, William on Anecdotes
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"With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner."

Sidney, Sir Philip on Anecdotes
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"The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it."

Sterne, Laurence on Anecdotes
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"Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter."

Swift, Jonathan on Anecdotes
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